Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Minister, reiterated on Twitter this Monday his strong condemnation of the intensification of U.S. aggression against Venezuela.

Army General Raúl Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, are attending the sessions of the 10th Congress of Cuban Women´s Federation underway at Havana's Conventions Center.

The work of stores that sell construction materials to subsidized people will be subject to analysis by several working commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) with a view to the next extraordinary session of the Cuban legislative body, as reported in a videoconference from the National Capitol.

The late arrival of a Russian ship carrying refined cooking oil caused shortages in central Cuba, but the situation has improved in the last days, according to officials in the territory.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of Cuba, today expressed on Twitter his repudiation of the United States' decision to extend for one year an executive order calling Venezuela a threat.

The 10th Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) is being held today in the Conventions Center of this capital city.

The First Symposium of the Max Planck Society of Germany and Cuba, Frontiers of Science, will contribute to promoting reciprocal scientific knowledge, said Aurora Fernández González, Deputy Minister of Higher Education, at the opening of the meeting on Wednesday.

Ana Maria Mari Machado, Vice President of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), received at the Capitolio in Havana a delegation of veteran internationalists from the Russian Federation, headed by Vitaly Karpenko, President of the Friendship with Cuba Group.

Cuba is a benchmark in the phased reduction of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), said Carlos Andrés Hernández, representative of Latin America and the Caribbean of the UN Development Program (UNDP).

Despite not competing by these days, Cuban Arlenis Sierra climbed to the ninth seat in the road cycling world ranking, due to fluctuations in the top 10 positions.

Reynaldo Garcia Zapata, president of the government in Havana, reported that from the sale of construction materials and the work of various construction brigades, 101 homes have been completed out of 804 counted as total collapses. In March, more than 200 homes are expected to be completed.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba´s President of the Councils of State and Ministers, described as absurd and illegal the Helms-Burton Act, which title III has been partially enforced as announced on Monday by the US Department of State.

The President of the Councils of State and Ministers Miguel Díaz-Canel said that Cuba can make a difference in tourism activity in the region, due to the attributes that it treasures as a country, not only because of the sun and the beaches, but also because of its history, culture, identity and citizen security, which differentiate it from the rest of the world.

The Ministry of Foreign Relations of Cuba issued a statement rejecting the announcement of the US State Department that will allow the filing of lawsuits before US courts under Title III of the Helms-Burton Act only against Cuban companies included in the List of Restricted Entities.

Cuba rejected an article published by Canadian broadcaster CBC News on the alleged presence of Cuban military in the Venezuelan army, which it described as tendentious and manipulative.